| 2007-12-28 23:24:40 |
Daniel Hahler |
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I don't know if to call this a bug or not--the current boinc-manager's Tasks window has the "Show graphics" tab grayed out--I have gone to the Debian Wiki & done what is shown to "make" graphics work (xhost +local:) & this will not work. Is it possible that the "current" version was compiled without the --show_graphics flag? |
The "show graphics" button is grayed out for most projects, because there are no graphics available.
The button is only active, if the task provides a graphic _and_ is active.
Additionally, you need to call "xhost +si:localuser:boinc" to allow the local boinc user accessing your DISPLAY.
If those conditions are met, graphics get displayed. That's the case e.g. for the "FightAIDS@Home 5.42" application in the "World Community Grid" project.
It's not easily possible to provide feedback about failure of glutInit to the user (see comment below).
For BOINC 6, it's planned to revamp the whole subsystem to display graphics, so there's hope that the user experience gets improved (I've read about it at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=2353). |
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